Heuristics for Computing Attribute Values of C++ Program Complexity Metrics

  • Authors:
  • Eun Mi Kim;Shinji Kusumoto;Tohru Kikuno;Ok Bae Chang

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • COMPSAC '96 Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Computer Software and Applications
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

We have proposed new metrics for computing the program complexity of object-oriented program. In these metrics, we have examined program complexity from three dimensional viewpoints in object-oriented paradigm : Syntax dimension, Inheritance dimension and Interaction dimension. Then, we have defined attributes to evaluate three viewpoints quantitatively. In this paper, we present some heuristics for computing actual values of the attributes, for which we have given only definitions in the previous paper. Then, we analytically evaluate the new metrics with regard to Weyuker's measurement principles. As the result, it is found that our metrics satisfy essential properties which any measure must have. Finally, we develop the tool to compute the values of the attributes automatically.